OpenJDK 8u272-b01 EA Released

[Andrew Hughes]

I've made available an early access source bundle for 8u272, based on
the tag jdk8u272-b01:

https://openjdk-sources.osci.io/openjdk8/openjdk8u272-b01-ea.tar.xz

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Changes in 8u272-b01:
  - JDK-8006205: [TESTBUG] NEED_TEST: please JTREGIFY test/compiler/7177917/Test7177917.java
  - JDK-8031625: javadoc problems referencing inner class constructors
  - JDK-8035493: JVMTI PopFrame capability must instruct compilers not to prune locals
  - JDK-8036088: Replace strtok() with its safe equivalent strtok_s() in DefaultProxySelector.c
  - JDK-8039082: [TEST_BUG] Test java/awt/dnd/BadSerializationTest/BadSerializationTest.java fails
  - JDK-8075774: Small readability and performance improvements for zipfs
  - JDK-8132206: move ScanTest.java into OpenJDK
  - JDK-8132376: Add @requires os.family to the client tests with access to internal OS-specific API
  - JDK-8132745: minor cleanup of java/util/Scanner/ScanTest.java
  - JDK-8137087: [TEST_BUG] Cygwin failure of java/awt/appletviewer/IOExceptionIfEncodedURLTest/IOExceptionIfEncodedURLTest.sh
  - JDK-8145808: java/awt/Graphics2D/MTGraphicsAccessTest/MTGraphicsAccessTest.java hangs on Win. 8
  - JDK-8151788: NullPointerException from ntlm.Client.type3
  - JDK-8151834: Test SmallPrimeExponentP.java times out intermittently
  - JDK-8153430: jdk regression test MletParserLocaleTest, ParserInfiniteLoopTest reduce default timeout
  - JDK-8153583: Make OutputAnalyzer.reportDiagnosticSummary public
  - JDK-8156169: Some sound tests rarely hangs because of incorrect synchronization
  - JDK-8165936: Potential Heap buffer overflow when seaching timezone info files
  - JDK-8166148: Fix for JDK-8165936 broke solaris builds
  - JDK-8167300: Scheduling failures during gcm should be fatal
  - JDK-8167615: Opensource unit/regression tests for JavaSound
  - JDK-8172012: [TEST_BUG] delays needed in javax/swing/JTree/4633594/bug4633594.java
  - JDK-8177628: Opensource unit/regression tests for ImageIO
  - JDK-8183341: Better cleanup for javax/imageio/AllowSearch.java
  - JDK-8183351: Better cleanup for jdk/test/javax/imageio/spi/AppletContextTest/BadPluginConfigurationTest.sh
  - JDK-8193137: Nashorn crashes when given an empty script file
  - JDK-8194298: Add support for per Socket configuration of TCP keepalive
  - JDK-8198004: javax/swing/JFileChooser/6868611/bug6868611.java throws error
  - JDK-8200313: java/awt/Gtk/GtkVersionTest/GtkVersionTest.java fails
  - JDK-8210147: adjust some WSAGetLastError usages in windows network coding
  - JDK-8211714: Need to update vm_version.cpp to recognise VS2017 minor versions
  - JDK-8214862: assert(proj != __null) at compile.cpp:3251
  - JDK-8217606: LdapContext#reconnect always opens a new connection
  - JDK-8217647: JFR: recordings on 32-bit systems unreadable
  - JDK-8226697: Several tests which need the @key headful keyword are missing it.
  - JDK-8229378: jdwp library loader in linker_md.c quietly truncates on buffer overflow
  - JDK-8230303: JDB hangs when running monitor command
  - JDK-8230711: ConnectionGraph::unique_java_object(Node* N) return NULL if n is not in the CG
  - JDK-8234617: C1: Incorrect result of field load due to missing narrowing conversion
  - JDK-8235243: handle VS2017 15.9 and VS2019 in abstract_vm_version
  - JDK-8235325: build failure on Linux after 8235243
  - JDK-8235687: Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib cannot be a symlink
  - JDK-8237951: CTW: C2 compilation fails with "malformed control flow"
  - JDK-8238225: Issues reported after replacing symlink at Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib with binary
  - JDK-8239385: KerberosTicket client name refers wrongly to sAMAccountName in AD
  - JDK-8239819: XToolkit: Misread of screen information memory
  - JDK-8240295: hs_err elapsed time in seconds is not accurate enough
  - JDK-8241888: Mirror jdk.security.allowNonCaAnchor system property with a security one
  - JDK-8242498: Invalid "sun.awt.TimedWindowEvent" object leads to JVM crash
  - JDK-8243489: Thread CPU Load event may contain wrong data for CPU time under certain conditions
  - JDK-8244818: Java2D Queue Flusher crash while moving application window to external monitor
  - JDK-8246310: Clean commented-out code about ModuleEntry andPackageEntry in JFR
  - JDK-8246384: Enable JFR by default on supported architectures for October 2020 release
  - JDK-8248643: Remove extra leading space in JDK-8240295 8u backport
  - JDK-8249610: Make sun.security.krb5.Config.getBooleanObject(String... keys) method public
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
OpenJDK Package Owner
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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